Portal:Anarchism/Selected image

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Anarchism-related Featured pictures from Wikipedia or Commons can be added directly to this list without nomination. All other images should be nominated first to ensure that only the best anarchism images are selected for use in the portal. To nominate an image for selection, see the centralized portal maintenance page for a list of current nominations and discussions.

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Selected images list

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Oscar Wilde, famed Irish playwright, poet, and anarchist. c. 1882

Oscar Wilde, novelist, poet and playwright, was so enchanted by the work of Peter Kropotkin that he converted to anarchism and wrote the essay The Soul of Man under Socialism.

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Opus 217. Against the Enamel of a Background Rhythmic with Beats and Angles, Tones, and Tints, Portrait of M. Félix Fénéon in 1890, by Paul Signac (1890). 73.5 × 92.5 cm.

A portrait of Félix Fénéon, by Paul Signac. Fénéon and Signac were both prominent Perisian artists and anarchists, influential in the neo-impressionist art movements. Many anarchists have expressed anarchist philosophy through art. Art styles and mediums which have been influenced by anarchism include French Symbolism, Surrealism, Punk rock, poetry, and film.

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Protest outside a Mercadona store in Barcelona, Spain

Members of the Spanish anarcho-syndicalist union the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo (National Confederation of Labour) taking part in strike action at Spanish supermarket chain Mercadona on 13 June 2006. July of 2006 marked the 70th anniversary of the Spanish Revolution, and in commemoration the CNT and FAI organized commemorative celebrations.

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Black Bloc demonstrators taunting liberal protesters at a 2005 protest

Black Bloc demonstrators taunting liberal protesters at Malcolm X Park during the January 20, 2005 counter-inaugural protest. The tactic of black bloc affinity groups advocating direct action instead of nonviolent resistance was pioneered by European autonomes in the 1980s.

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Graffito from a 2004 CrimethInc. campaign.

Stenciled graffito in Washington D.C. bearing the slogan of CrimethInc.'s 2004 Don't Just Vote campaign, which exhorted voters to expand their political advocacy beyond voting to direct action. Image courtesy of the Brian MacKenzie Infoshop.

CrimethInc. argued that "[v]oting for people to represent your interests is the least efficient and effective means of applying political power. The alternative, broadly speaking, is acting directly to represent your interests yourself." This posture is typical of anarchism's historical anti-electoralism.

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Anti-anarchist propaganda

A cartoon published in 1919 in the Memphis Commercial Appeal which depicts a monstrous "European Anarchist" seeking to blow up the Statue of Liberty. The caption ironically reads "COME UNTO ME YE OPPREST", a welcoming slogan to immigrants from less free nations. Anti-anarchist sentiment was high during the turn of the century, and was legislated into US law as the Anarchist Exclusion Act in 1901 and again in 1918. Each barred European anarchists from entering the country.

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A 19th century depiction of a meeting of the Alþingi at Þingvellir.

19th century interpretation of the Althing in the Icelandic Commonwealth by W.G. Collingwood. Anarcho-capitalists such as David Friedman and Roderick Long consider Medieval Iceland to exemplify some features of an anarchist society.

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Members of the anti-fascist Maquis in La Tresorerie, 14 September 1944, Boulogne, France.

Members of the anti-fascist Maquis in La Tresorerie, 14 September 1944, Boulogne, France. The Maquis resisted Nazi and Francoist rule in Europe in the mid-20th century; In south-west France, some Maqui cells were composed entirely of veterans of the Spanish Civil War, many of whom were anarchists.

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Katie Sierra in the Land of the Free by Carlos Latuff

Katie Sierra in the Land of the Free by political cartoonist Carlos Latuff. The Katie Sierra suspension controversy occurred in 2001 when anarcho-pacifist Sierra faced harassment for opposing the 2001 War in Afghanistan; anarcho-pacifists reject violence and militarism, and seek non-violent social revolution.

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Radical cheerleaders the Resistin Radicatz in performance

The Resistin Radicatz, a radical cheerleading group, perform in front of AFL–CIO headquarters in Washington, D.C., on October 17, 2004.

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Protester in Copenhagen, Denmark hurling a molotov cocktail at police

A protester in the anarchist community of Freetown Christiania, Denmark hurls a molotov cocktail in the direction of a police van in May 2007. Violent resistance is a form of direct action opposed by pacifist anarchists but espoused by illegalists and insurrectionary anarchists.

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An upmarket Audi automobile with the license plate "ANRCHST"

An upmarket Audi automobile with the license plate "ANRCHST". Anti-capitalist anarchists consider anarchism and anarcho-capitalism to be mutually exclusive, rejecting anarcho-capitalism's acceptance of consumerism and hierarchical labor as fundamentally unanarchistic.

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Radicals in Ellis Island awaiting deportation

Anarchists and other radicals awaiting deportation from Ellis Island on January 3, 1920, after being rounded up in raids the previous night in New York City. The passage of Anarchist Exclusion Acts by the United States Congress resulted in the deportation of dozens of illegal immigrants from the United States as a result of their political beliefs.

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Engraving of the seven Haymarket Martyrs sentenced to death after the Haymarket Riot in Chicago, 1886

Engraving of the seven anarchists sentenced to death in the aftermath of the Haymarket affair, a bombing in Chicago, United States in 1886. The event was a significant milestone in the history of anarchism and of anarchism in the United States, and marked the beginning of the annual tradition of May Day labor movement protests.

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James Northcote, painting entitled William Godwin, oil on canvas, 1802, the National Portrait Gallery

James Northcote, William Godwin, oil on canvas, 1802, the National Portrait Gallery. William Godwin (1756-1836) was one of the first modern proponents of philosophical anarchism

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Photograph of the Italian American anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti prior to their execution

Photograph of Italian American anarchists Ferdinando Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti in handcuffs shortly before their execution for armed robbery in 1923.

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Voltairine de Cleyre (1866-1912)

Voltairine de Cleyre (1866-1912), photographed in Philadelphia, United States in 1901. De Cleyre was a noted anarchist without adjectives, literary figure and public speaker.

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Drawing of Cuban anarchist Enrique Roig San Martin

Drawing of Enrique Roig San Martin from an 1889 issue of El Productor, a Cuban anarchist magazine, which was published to commemorate Roig San Martin's death. Roig San Martín was an important figure in the early Cuban anarchist movement, and founded the Centro de Instrucción y Recreo de Santiago de las Vegas in 1882 with the primary goal of advocating trade unionism and collectivist anarchism.

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Ross Winn, circa 1901

Photograph of Ross Winn (1871–1912), American anarchist writer and publisher, circa 1901. Winn is best remembered for publishing several anarchist periodicals and trying to promote anarchism in the historically conservative southern United States.

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Anarchist comic book writer Alan Moore

Alan Moore is among many artists influenced by anarchism. A comic book writer, his work has expressed sex-positive, anti-nuclear, environmentalist, and anarchist themes. His celebrated graphic novel V for Vendetta pits an anarchist vigilante against a fascist dictatorship. He decried the film version of the story for its substitution of anarchist themes with American liberal values.

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Portrait of French anarcho-syndicalist and free lover Benoit Broutchoux

Portrait of Benoît Broutchoux, French anarcho-syndicalist. Broutchoux was active in the French trade union movement and was among the Parisian bohemians arguing for free love at the turn of the 20th century.

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IWW union poster

Industrial Workers of the World poster calling on workers to organise for a general strike. "Wage slavery" is a term used by critics of capitalism to equate the conditions of wage labour with slavery.

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Ricardo and Enrique Flores Magon

Brothers Ricardo (left) and Enrique Flores Magón (right) at the Los Angeles County Jail, 1917. The Flores Magón brothers were noted Mexican anarchists and their philosophy of Magonismo was a leading inspiration of the Mexican Revolution (1910).

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Exterior of DIRA infoshop, Montreal, Canada

Documentations, Informations, Références et Archives (DIRA)/L'Insoumise, Montreal's anarchist infoshop/bookstore, boulevard St Laurent, March 2007. DIRA serves as a free community lending library and archive of material relevant to anarchism.

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Interior of Left Bank Books, Seattle

Interior of Left Bank Books, a Seattle-based worker-owned co-operative bookstore. Infoshops such as Left Bank Books are social centers that serve as a node for the distribution of anarchist information and as meeting spaces and resource hubs for local activist groups.

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Caricature of Émile Pouget.

Émile Pouget (1860–1931), as portrayed by Aristide Delannoy. Pouget was a French anarchist and trade unionist who was elected to the position of Vice-Secretary of the Confédération générale du travail. He narrowly escaped French persecution in the Trial of the thirty by escaping to exile in England.

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Portrait of Russian author and philosopher, Leo Tolstoy.

Portrait of Leo Tolstoy by Ilya Repin, 1887. Tolstoy was a towering figure in Russian literary and philosophical history, and one of the chief influences on Christian and pacifist anarchism.

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Oscar Wilde, famed Irish playwright, poet, and anarchist. c. 1882

Oscar Wilde, novelist, poet and playwright, was so enchanted by the work of Peter Kropotkin that he converted to anarchism and wrote the essay The Soul of Man under Socialism.